Emotional Emptiness: What Am I Missing?

In order to fill emotional emptiness you don’t need any material things and you don’t need any other people either. Only you can fill this void with healthy self-love. 

I feel a void in me that I don’t know how to fill. An emotional emptiness that makes me feel that I’m not complete, not good enough …

I have to fill this emotional void , but I don’t know how. This emptiness makes me sad and discouraged.

Emotional emptiness is an experience that one often feels after the death of a loved one, after a relationship breakdown, or after disappointment.

You have to pay enough attention to this condition because if it lasts longer and you begin to fill the void with people or things,  you are just covering up the real problem.

Infinite emotional emptiness

Many try  to fill this agonizing void with material things. You buy unnecessary things on an impulse and feel guilty afterwards.

They spend a lot of money to distract themselves from their problems and hide their pain. But this is just an escape that will not solve the real problems.

Others, on the other hand, fill their void with people on whom they become dependent, who manipulate or use them. You want to prevent yourself from feeling lonely.

But this is a serious mistake that can cause a lot of pain, both for the other person and for the person concerned. Most of the time, such relationships end up destructively and with great unhappiness.

Emotional emptiness creates hopelessness. In this situation one often holds on to people or things that alleviate the suffering in the short term.

Affected people often suffer from eating disorders or injure themselves, because the feeling is so unbearable that they have to cover it up with other methods.

Origins in childhood

Childhood is the basis for a happy adult life. If affective and emotional problems arise at a young age, it can lead to even greater difficulties in future life.

Emptiness creates even more emptiness

If you seek the solution from others,  that is, if you try to fill your emptiness with other people, with clothes or with food, you will not achieve your goal.

You only need a little nudge, a “you are not alone”, to get back on track. Because at some point you lost yourself, but that doesn’t mean you can’t find yourself again.

You have to fill your emotional void  with healthy self-love. Get started today!

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